Handle support



N. L. JORDAN HANDLE SUPPORT March 14, 1933.

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ATTORNEY! Patented Mar. 14, 1933 UNITED STATES NE'U'ZBURY L. JORDAN, OF PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY HANDLE SUPPORT Application filed June 24, 1932. Serial No. 619,136. 7

This invention relates to an improved support for handles of all types of implements and doors, particularly handles on household articles such as brooms, mops and the like.

. The invention has for its purpose to provide a support which can be fastened to any suitable fixed support, such as the wall, the back of a door or similar place and is provided with opposed clamping elements, between 10 which a handle may be arranged, thereby preventing the implement from falling over or otherwise getting out of place.

Another purpose is to provide, in a support of this character, a coating of some suitablev 16 material on the clamping elements, so as to insure a binding or frictional engagement between the elements, one of the clamping ele ments being relatively yieldable in order to permit handles and the like of different di- 20 ameters in cross sectional area to engage between the elements.

It is to be understood that the particulars herein given are in no way limitative, and that while still keeping within the scope of the invention, any desired modification of details and proportions may be made in the construction of the appliance according to circumstances.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts to be hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawing and claimed.

In the drawing V Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the improved support constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawing 1 identifies the body of the support, which may be fastened by screws or the like 2 to a fixed object such as the wall or the back of a door or other. place.

This body may be made preferably through the medium of a die stamp job, though it is possible to cast it.

The body if provided with upper and lower arms 3 and 4, which, if the body is made by means of a die stamp process may be of yieldable character. a The lower part of the body of the support at a point opposite the arm 4, is provided with an outwardly extending arm 5, and attached thereto by means of rivets 6 is a clamping element 7. This clamping element 7 as disclosed in Figure 2, as well as the arms 3 and 4 are relatively curved in cross sectional area, for the purpose of conforming to the cylindrical contour of the handle 8 shown in dotted lines in'Figure land in full lines in Figure I 2. The clamping element 7 is substantially yieldable, capable of giving considerably, so that handles of various diameters can be engaged between the clamping element 7 and the clamping arms 3 and 4'. One longitudinal edge portion of the clamping element 7 is outwardly curved as identified at 9, while the arms 3 and 4 have their ends similarly outwardly curved as identified at 10, thereby permitting a handle to be easily forced between the clamping element 7 and the arms 3 and 4. Also the upper end of the clamping element 7 is laterally curved which would permit some handles to be inverted and be forced downwardly between theelement 7 and the arms.

As particularly shown in Figure 2 the arms 3 and 4 as well as the clamping element 7 are provided with coatings of some suitable material 11 and 12, such as rubber or a composition of rubber and fabric, which is vulcanized or otherwise applied to the metal, thereby rendering frictional contact with the handle, to prevent slipping thereof, when a handle is suspended from the holder or support. f

Theinvention having been set forth, what is claimed is: i

1. A handle holder or support for fastening to a fixed object, comprising a body having upper and lower arms shaped to conform to a handle, the lower part of the body opposite the lower armhaving an outwardly ex- .tendingarm, and a yieldable clamping'element fastened to the last named lower arm, said clamping element'being relatively yieldable and normally inclined toward the first upper and lower arms, thereby permitting a handle to be clamped between the element m0 and said upper and lower arms.

2. A handle holder or support for fastening to a fixed object, comprising a body having upper and lower arms shaped to conform to a handle, the lower part of the body oppo- 5 site the lower arm'having an outwardly extending arm, and a yieldable clamping element fastened to the last named lower arm, said clamping element being relatively yieldable and normally inclined toward the first 19 upper and lower arms, thereby permitting a handle to be clamped between the element and. i said upper and lower arms, said upper and 7 lower arms and the yieldable clamping element being relatively curved in cross sectional areato conform to a cylindrical handle.

3. A handle holder or support for fastening to a fixed object, comprising a body having upper and lower arms shaped to conform to a handle, the lower part of the body opposite the lower arm having an outwardly extendingarm, and a yieldable clamping element fastened to the last named lower arm, said clamping element being relatively yieldable and normally inclined toward the first upper and lower arms, thereby permitting a handle to be clamped between the element and said upper and lower arms, said upper and lower arms and the yieldable clamping element being relatively curved in cross sec-j tional .area to conform to a cylindrical handle, said upper and lower arms and the yieldable clamping element having coatings of frictional material to insure frictional or binding action on a handle to prevent slip- 35 ping of the latter.

4:. A handle holder or support, comprising a body having upper and lower arms on one side, and a relatively long clamping element attached to the lower part of the body on the opposite sideand extending upwardly a distance substantially greater than the height ofthe body and inclined toward'said upper and lower arms, thereby permitting a handle to be forced between the element and the arms.

5. A handle holder or support, comprising abodyhaving upper and lower arms on one side, and arelatively long clamping element attached to the lowerpart of the body on the opposite side and extendingupwardly a distance substantially greater than the height of the bodyand inclined toward said upper A A A and lower arms, thereby permitting a handle i to be forced between the element and the arms, and'a fric'tional binding material vulcanized to thearms and the element to prevent slipping ofthe handle.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

NEUBUBY L. JORDAN. 

